National Nutrition Month

From Christine Seivers

 My work managing content at Medicalbillingandcoding.org means I spend a lot of time online. (All day, actually.) I was happy to find your blog while researching health care articles. I think you’ve got a lot of great, informative content. I’m writing because our interests overlap, and because I think I’ve found something that could interest you and your readers. We recently published an article, "25 Twitter Feeds to Start Following During National Nutrition Month ", that’s right in line with your areas of expertise. Take a look: (http://www.medicalbillingandcoding.org/blog/25-twitter-feeds-to-start-following-during-national-nutrition-month/)

 If you like it, feel free to pass it along to your readers, whether that means blogging or sharing in your own way. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to me. Thanks so much for all your great work.

25 Twitter Feeds to Start Following During National Nutrition Month

Posted on March 25, 2012

Maintaining a healthy diet ought to be an everyday habit, but March makes an appropriate time for those considering a changeover to finally go for it. Proper nutrition sometimes seems like such a trendy topic these days, but in reality it actually holds far more sway overpublic health and personal well-being than a true fad. Hopefully, the advancement of food education means more citizens enjoy access to and choose options that let them eat well and stay active. Whether getting started on a new regimen, hoping to better stick to a more established one, or just wanting to learn more about the role wholesome foods play in a healthy lifestyle, the following Twitter feeds offer up most excellent information. Give them a follow when looking for quick snippets to help you hack your health.ChooseMyPlate.gov: The USDA presents a free tool encouraging Americans to think critically about their nutrition, and it shares little eating hacks on its related Twitter feed./.../

Três AMICOR de Parabéns!

PARABENS!
*Dra. Rosa Maria Villa-Nova de Carvalho apresentou no dia 23 p.p. com distinção sua tese de Mestrado Profissional na UFRGS: "Validação de teste de Hemoglolbina Glicada A1c."
*Dra.Beatriz Bohrer do Amaral receberá no próximo dia 27 o títuo de Cidadã Emérita de Porto Alegre no próximo dia 17 na câmara de Vereadores de Porto Alegre.
*Dra. Amanda GRM Souza receberá, no mesmo dia 27 em São Paulo, o VIII prêmio Excelência Mulher 2012.

Man Interacting with a Woman

Why Interacting with a Woman Can Leave Men "Cognitively Impaired"

In one experiment, just telling a man he would be observed by a female was enough to hurt his psychological performance.

By Daisy Grewal  | March 13, 2012 | 66

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WHY DO MEN HAVE TROUBLE THINKING?Image: iStock/Iconogenic

Movies and television shows are full of scenes where a man tries unsuccessfully to interact with a pretty woman. In many cases, the potential suitor ends up acting foolishly despite his best attempts to impress. It seems like his brain isn’t working quite properly and according to new findings, it may not be.

Researchers have begun to explore the cognitive impairment that men experience before and after interacting with women. A 2009 study demonstrated that after a short interaction with an attractive woman, men experienced a decline in mental performance. A more recent study suggests that this cognitive impairment takes hold even w hen men simply anticipateinteracting with a woman who they know very little about./.../

Universe wide image

New wide image of universe called unprecedented

March 22, 2012 Courtesy of the Science & Technology Facilities Council of the U.K.
and World Science staff

As­tro­no­mers have re­leased a pan­o­ram­ic im­age of the uni­verse that they call un­prec­e­dent­ed in scope.On this col­or com­pos­ite of the Ul­tra­V­ISTA im­age (click for full-screen view), the large white ob­jects with haloes are fore­ground stars in our own Milky Way Gal­axy. A host of oth­er ga­lax­ies can be seen, from rel­a­tively near­by ga­lax­ies which ap­pear large enough to dis­cern their struc­tures, to the most dis­tant ga­lax­ies which ap­pear as red dots in this im­age. (Cred­it: Ul­tra­V­ISTA/Terapix/CNRS/CASU )
The im­age is the most de­tailed pic­ture tak­en of a re­gion large enough to be rep­re­sent­a­tive of the dis­tant uni­verse, ac­cord­ing to the re­search­ers be­hind the work. Ga­lax­ies seen at vast dis­tances are al­so seen as they were long ago, since their light takes time to trav­el.“Un­til re­cently our view back to the first ep­och of gal­axy forma­t­ion has been lim­it­ed to ti­ny, ‘pencil-beam’ im­ages made with the Hub­ble Space Tele­scope,” said James Dun­lop of the Uni­vers­ity of Ed­in­burgh in Scot­land, who led the sci­en­tif­ic team. “Now VIS­TA, with its pan­o­ram­ic im­ag­ing ca­pa­bil­ity, is pro­vid­ing us with the first view of truly rep­re­sent­a­tive re­gions of the young Uni­verse.”
VIS­TA is the Vis­i­ble and In­fra­red Sur­vey Tel­e­scope for As­tron­o­my, a new in­stru­ment lo­cat­ed at the Pa­ra­nal Ob­serv­a­to­ry in Chil­e. The im­age was tak­en us­ing near-infrared light, a type of light some­what less en­er­get­ic than what the hu­man eye can de­tect, al­though it can be con­vert­ed to vis­i­ble form in im­ages./.../

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